NISO Standards At Ballot
The following standards are currently at ballot by NISO voting members. All
standards at ballot are available for public review and comment through the
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Standards Undergoing Five Year Reviews
NISO and ANSI procedures require that standards be reviewed within five years of their ANSI approval to ensure that standards remain current. Currently the following standards are undergoing review. Comments from the public on whether these standards should be reaffirmed, revised, or withdrawn are welcome. Please provide specific details regarding any recommendations that are made. Comments can be submitted online at http://www.niso.org/contact.
| Managing Topic Committee | Name |
Title |
Year |
Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Discovery to Delivery Recommendation: Reaffirm |
ANSI/NISO Z39.50 | Information Retrieval: Application Service Definition & Protocol Specification | 2003 | Ballot ends May 8, 2009. Comments deadline: May 25, 2009. |
| Discovery to Delivery Recommendation: Reaffirm |
ANSI/NISO Z39.89 | The U.S. National Z39.50 Profile for Library Applications | 2003 | Ballot ends May 14, 2009. Comments deadline: May 25, 2009. |
| Content and Collection Management Recommendation: Withdraw in favor of ISO 2709:2008 |
ANSI/NISO Z39.2 | Information Interchange Format | 1994 (R2001) | Ballot ends May 20, 2009. Comments deadline: June 8. 2009. |
| Content and Collection Management Recommendation: Reaffirm | ANSI/NISO Z39.14 | Guidelines for Abstracts | 1997 (R2002) | Ballot ends May 20, 2009. Comments deadline: June 1. 2009. |
| Content and Collection Management Recommendation: Reaffirm | ANSI/NISO/ISO 12083 | Electronic Manuscript Preparation and Markup This is a national adoption of ISO 12083. | 1995 (R2002) | Ballot ends May 20, 2009. Comments deadline: June 1. 2009. |
| Content and Collection Management Recommendation: Reaffirm | ANSI/NISO Z39.23 | Standard Technical Report Number Format and Creation | 1997 (R2002) | Ballot ends May 28, 2009. Comments deadline: June 8. 2009. |
| Content and Collection Management Recommendation: Reaffirm | ANSI/NISO Z39.26 | Micropublishing Product Information | 1997 (R2002) | Ballot ends May 28, 2009. Comments deadline: June 8. 2009. |
| Content and Collection Management Recommendation: Reaffirm with title and abstract change (see note below table) |
ANSI/NISO Z39.41 | Printed Information on Spines | 1997 (R2002) | Ballot ends June 3, 2009. Comments deadline: June 15. 2009. |
| Content and Collection Management Recommendation: Withdraw (see note below table) |
ANSI/NISO Z39.47 | Extended Latin Alphabet Coded Character Set for Bibliographic Use (ANSEL) | 1993 (R2003) | Ballot ends June 3, 2009. Comments deadline: June 15. 2009. |
| Content and Collection Management Recommendation: Reaffirm with abstract change (see note below table) | ANSI/NISO Z39.48 | Permanence of Paper for Publications and Documents in Libraries and Archives | 1992 (R2002) | Ballot ends June 3, 2009. Comments deadline: June 15. 2009. |
| Content and Collection Management Recommendation: Reaffirm | ANSI/NISO Z39.56 | Serial Item and Contribution Identifier (SICI) | 1996 (R2002) | Ballot ends June 3, 2009. Comments deadline: June 15. 2009. |
Notes
Z39.41 Note: To better reflect the content of the standard, CCM is recommending the title be changed to "Placement Guidelines for Information on Spines" amd the abstract be updated as "Describes and allocates areas on the spines of printed bindings, covers, containers, or other protective enclosures. It describes, at a high level, both the kinds of information to be printed on spines and the order and placement of the information."
Z39.47 Note: The Topic Committee recommends a withdrawal vote for the following reasons:
- MARC records currently used by libraries are converted to the encoding standards supported by the systems such as Windows and UNIX.
- UNIMARC has already moved to full Unicode, and US MARC distributed using marcxml is also in Unicode.
- ANSEL cannot support software developments that support language-sensitive search and retrieve, and requires programming to map ANSEL-based data to newer standards in order to be processed by computer operating system and database systems.
ANSEL had an important role in making it possible for bibliographic utilities to exchange data that contained diacritics characters that were not covered by ANSI ASCII at a time when no standard existed outside of the library community. However, since then ISO and NISO have developed several standards for character encoding (e.g., ISO 8859-1 [Latin-1], ISO 8859-2, and ISO 10646 [Unicode]) that have been widely adopted and accepted by many communities, including libraries.
The CCM Topic Committee therefore believes that the Z39.47 standard should be referenced only when there is a need to map or convert old data, something that can be done by referencing the withdrawn standard, and that it would not be in the best interests of the information community to maintain this standard as a NISO/ANSI standard any longer at this time. The document would continue to be available on the NISO website as a withdrawn standard.
Z39.48 Note: The CCM Topic Committee is recommending the following sentence be added to the end of the abstract: "The standard does not address environmental impact issues of manufacturing."